November 20, 1989 | JOCELINE FRANK, Frank, originally from Peru, is on an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship. and

An old Andean tradition about dreams started a documentary project about a young Ecuadorean woman's passage from rural village to urban Los Angeles. But credit the hard reality of culture shock to enable the film to be completed. Jorge and Mabel Preloran, Argentine film makers living in Los Angeles, were on a visit to Ecuador in 1981 to make a documentary when they met Zulay Saravino, then a 19-year-old girl living in rural Otavalo in northern Ecuador.

Jorge Preloran, an Argentine filmmaker known for turning his subjects into collaborators who helped shape the content, tone and style of his unusual documentaries, died March 28 in Los Angeles after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 75. His death was announced by UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, where he taught from 1976 to 1994.

Jorge Preloran, an Argentine filmmaker known for turning his subjects into collaborators who helped shape the content, tone and style of his unusual documentaries, died March 28 in Los Angeles after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 75. His death was announced by UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, where he taught from 1976 to 1994.

November 20, 1989 | JOCELINE FRANK, Frank, originally from Peru, is on an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship. and

An old Andean tradition about dreams started a documentary project about a young Ecuadorean woman's passage from rural village to urban Los Angeles. But credit the hard reality of culture shock to enable the film to be completed. Jorge and Mabel Preloran, Argentine film makers living in Los Angeles, were on a visit to Ecuador in 1981 to make a documentary when they met Zulay Saravino, then a 19-year-old girl living in rural Otavalo in northern Ecuador.

UCLA ranked third in the nation in the total number of Fulbright Awards given to scholars for 1987-88, university officials announced. UCLA scholars received 13 of the 984 awards granted. Indiana University had 17 and the University of Wisconsin at Madison had 15. UCLA received the most Fulbrights among the nine University of California campuses. Fulbright winners work for one year in more than 100 foreign countries conducting research or lecturing.